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Energy and foreign policy:
T&T’s tightrope



Barbados’ Prime minister Owen Arthur ( left), Prime Minister Patrick Manning (Center), Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (rigth)

By South Trinidad Chamber of Industry and Commerce (STCIC)
The Trinidad Guardian
Port Spain
Petroleumworld.com 03 05 06

Energy sector relations between T&T and Venezuela have been much in the news over the past couple of weeks. The address of former Finance Minister, Wendell Mottley, to the TTPC 2006, the Caricom heads of Government meeting in Port-of-Spain and the visit by David O’Reilly, chief executive of Chevron, have all brought the relationship between T&T and Venezuela into sharp focus. There are two separate but seemingly overlapping aspects to this relationship: firstly, the PetroCaribe agreement and, secondly, the issue of cross-border unitisation of gas reserves.- Full story

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